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In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it This quote is made by Herbert Simon in 1971, a psychologist and economist who first theorized the concept of attention economics. This concept came out when the current world leaders were in their youth, I believe some of them knew it very well, and some made it into use to the maximum. On the 13th of May, Trump visits Xijingping in Beijing with a bunch of high-level business men; a week later, Putin led another group of rich guys in his country came to visit Xi as a kind of show off, like lets compare who’s closer with whom, super childish and super chauvinism. These three old guy play their game treating the rest of the world as monkeys watching by. And the result of their talks? Nothing big, nothing special, nothing benefit for you and me. Dude, it’s time to wake up. The only news good for us is the death of either three of them, anything else is their play. So at this moment I decide to stop talking about them and use my attention wisely for people I care.
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